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Blast Fantasto posted:Bummer because the cast is pretty great too. Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Alan Rickman are all pretty dead on Especially Rickman 
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Blast Fantasto posted:Bummer because the cast is pretty great too. Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Alan Rickman are all pretty dead on It's too late but I always thought the cast of Peepshow would have been good for Hitchhikers.
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Babe Magnet posted:the cast of Darkplace would be good for Hitchhikers Matt Berry would be an excellent Zaphod
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Blast Fantasto posted:Matt Berry would be an excellent Zaphod True.
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Matt Berry instantly turns whatever character he plays into Matt Berry, which is almost always an upgrade.
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Krinkle posted:The would do like 90% of a segment from the book word for word, just absolutely delighting me, and then not do the punchline. You would not believe how frustrating it is to see them decide the punchline is a thing that could be tossed out. That's the most British thing I have ever heard.
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Babe Magnet posted:Matt Berry instantly turns whatever character he plays into Matt Berry, which is almost always an upgrade. One track lover is peak human performance
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Babe Magnet posted:the cast of Darkplace would be good for Hitchhikers Part of me thinks that Richard Ayoade would be a great Arthur because he'd be good at seeming put-upon and flustered...but I wonder if he's not bland enough.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy makes me angry. We finally get a big budget adaption and it’s so...bland, that it kills the trilogy in its crib. It’ll be another generation before its attempted again. The movie got me into the rest of the franchise as a teen, no regrets. It's a shame that Douglas died before he could see it though 
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Patattack posted:Part of me thinks that Richard Ayoade would be a great Arthur because he'd be good at seeming put-upon and flustered...but I wonder if he's not bland enough. oh poo poo ayoade as dent would be amazing
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And Noel Fielding as Ford. Because there's at least an 80% chance that he is actually an alien visiting our world.
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I'm one of the weirdos that both loves the books and thought the movie was pretty good. I have a high tolerance for adaptations, though. After all, if you want something exactly like the book, just go read the book.
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I like the movie enough because I just look at it through the lens of "this is just another iteration of the story" since every version has been tweaked in its own way.
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I really wish they'd stop doing adaptations. Can't a good book stay a good book?
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Screaming Idiot posted:I really wish they'd stop doing adaptations. Can't a good book stay a good book? The value of a book is not lessened by a poor adaptation.
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May 25, 2019 04:39
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Except when you can't see the characters as physically anything other than their movie actors.
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Sounds like a personal problem.
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Welcome to the dawn of motion pictures
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It didn't even start as a book, the radio series came years earlier
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The Ape of Naples posted:It's too late but I always thought the cast of Peepshow would have been good for Hitchhikers. Noel Fielding I'm seeing more as Zaphod than Ford.
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Noel Fielding is an awful choice. He'd just gurn through the whole thing with his stupid twee nonsense. He's far too deliberately quirky. A lot of the fun of hitchhiker is how Ford and Zaphod just roll with the weirdness, because that's normal for them. Fielding would spend the whole time winking at the camera. Mos Def I thought was legit great as Ford though. Absolutely inspired casting
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Noel Fielding is an awful choice. He'd just gurn through the whole thing with his stupid twee nonsense. He's far too deliberately quirky. A lot of the fun of hitchhiker is how Ford and Zaphod just roll with the weirdness, because that's normal for them. Fielding would spend the whole time winking at the camera. I feel like you could have Noel Fielding play nearly every single alien outside of the central cast and we'd be fine, though.
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Yeah he's be a good vogon. Also I can't believe you guys didn't mention Bill Nighy as Slartibartfast being one of the few good things from the banal barely average movie.
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John Mulaney as Ford.
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packetmantis posted:John Mulaney as Ford. Oh my god. That's a pretty stellar idea.
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Now I want HHGTTG as a podcast.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Noel Fielding is an awful choice. He'd just gurn through the whole thing with his stupid twee nonsense. He's far too deliberately quirky. A lot of the fun of hitchhiker is how Ford and Zaphod just roll with the weirdness, because that's normal for them. Fielding would spend the whole time winking at the camera. And a Subtle Movie Moment to boot. In Ford's unexpurgated entry on the Earth he writes that the first thing any alien visitor should do while acclimatising is go to New York and work as a cab driver, because nobody will care what you look like if you can speak English. Movie Ford evidently learned by experience, because (being played by Brooklyn-born Mos Def) he has the accent.
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In fact I think the only misstep in the whole core cast of the HHGTTG movie was Zooey Deschanel, who wasn't bad, but didn't really resemble the Trillian I remembered from the books. Mos Def was unexpected but great, Martin Freeman was spot-on, Sam Rockwell played it differently than I pictured but sold it perfectly, Alan Rickman was spot-on, Bill Nighy was (and always is) very enjoyable...
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Don’t get me wrong, I liked the HHGTTG alright. The casting was great, but the adaption just seemed underwhelming. It would have been an alright start to a trilogy if they worked out the kinks, but since it didn’t make any money they stopped right there. I need to just play the text game and forget there ever was a movie.
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Inzombiac posted:The value of a book is not lessened by a poor adaptation. I always felt it was an uncreative way for Hollywood to avoid taking risks on new properties by dumbing down and carving away the charm and uniqueness that made the original thing worth watching.
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The Ape of Naples posted:Now I want HHGTTG as a podcast. It sort of already was, it was a radio show.
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NtotheTC posted:It sort of already was, it was a radio show. I know. I just think that if it's done again that a Podcast is the best format for it. Though I suppose streaming services like netflix, et al, could also do it some service. It's just not suited to a movie. It takes a lot more time than that.
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We got s Dirk Gently TV series. Surely the rights to HHGTTG aren’t so mucked up that we can’t get a Hitchhiker series too. Starz managed to beat that Evil Dead horse for 4 seasons. Just think what they could do with 3 Douglas Adams books.
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Patattack posted:In fact I think the only misstep in the whole core cast of the HHGTTG movie was Zooey Deschanel, who wasn't bad, but didn't really resemble the Trillian I remembered from the books. She looks a poo poo-ton more like book Trillian than Sandra Dickinson. Sue Sheridan too, for that matter, although of course that didn't matter until the Live Radio Show 30-odd years later. I don't know if a H2G2 show would work now, though. The humour is fine, but the Guide itself is a hopelessly antiquated concept now.
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Jedit posted:The humour is fine, but the Guide itself is a hopelessly antiquated concept now. Just make it space yelpipedia. And the reason Earth got cut down to 'harmless' is deletionists. Done.
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Jedit posted:the Guide itself is a hopelessly antiquated concept now 
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Krispy Wafer posted:Just think what they could do with 3 Douglas Adams books. Five books.  
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And they don’t get bad* until the fifth one! *well, I still didn’t mind it, but it’s definitely way less good than the other 4
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Five books. Are we not counting Eoin Colfers book? Because there's absolutely a 6th. I haven't read it but I've bought it from 50 cent book bins twice. I forgot I bought it the first time
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